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Operation OPBAT Nets 2100 Pounds Of Marijuana

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - On January 16th, Operation Bahamas Turks and (OPBAT) assets were deployed after a Customs and Border (CBP) Office of Air and (OAM) aircraft detected a go-fast vessel eighty nautical miles south of the Grand Bahama Island. The 45 foot vessel was travelling at high speed with no...
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Alleged International Narcotics Traffickers Extradited From Colombia On Cocaine Importation Charges

MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division; Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Miami-Dade County State Attorney; Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security (ICE-HSI) Miami...
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Colombian Narcotics Kingpin Pleads Guilty To Decades-Long Drug Trafficking Charges

MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce the guilty plea of Diego Perez Henao...
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Jackson County Man Sentenced For Methamphetamine Conspiracy

ST. LOUIS - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) St. Louis Division announced that Charles W. Scallion, 41, of Carbondale, Ill., was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton on a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. This announcement was also made by Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for...
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Eldon Man Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison For Meth Conspiracy, Attempted Jail Escape

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge James Shroba and United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Tammy Dickinson, announced today that an Eldon, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for his role in a large-scale conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in the Cole...
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Kansas City Woman Sentenced To 30 Years For Large-Scale Cocaine Conspiracy

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge James Shroba and United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Tammy Dickinson, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for her role in a conspiracy that was responsible for distributing hundreds of...
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Oldsmar Man Sentenced To Prison For Oxycodone Distribution

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces today that U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven sentenced Rick (33, Oldsmar) to two years and nine months...
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Freeport Physician Sentenced To 30 Years For Illegal Prescribing

PENSACOLA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced that Doctor Robert L. Ignasiak, Jr. (58, Freeport), was sentenced to 30 years in prison yesterday for health care fraud...
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Orange County Pharmacist Charged With Illegally Distributing Pain Medications

ORLANDO, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces the return of an indictment charging Valentine (52, Orlando) with one count of conspiracy to possess with intent...
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Five Columbia Residents Among 10 Defendants Indicted For Conspiracy To Distribute A Ton Of Marijuana

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge James Shroba and United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Tammy Dickinson announced today that 10 defendants have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute more than 2,200 pounds of...

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